Rohan Ramakrishna MD

Introducing Roon for Doctors.

Medicine at its best is a profoundly collaborative craft — and we’ve built a new home online for exactly that kind of collaboration.

Great perspective from @DhruvKhullar in @NEJM on how the doom & gloom around economic displacement for physicians may be overhyped.

My quick take
*I think the public conversation now overestimates the complexity in clinical care, esp hospital care, that can be automated. But I think AI will eventually have a transformative effect in medicine but on a much longer time horizon than the AI optimists would have us believe

*While AI may generate more clinical demand, it's only an assumption that more humans will be needed to fulfill that demand

*The O-ring argument says an error at any step can undermine the whole process. That makes accuracy, reliability and fidelity essential. But It doesn’t establish who provides it best: clinicians, AI, or both. It could be that even essential human oversight could be provided by fewer clinicians.

I think the biggest barrier to AI generated economic displacement broadly is cultural. The public, at least now, seems to be united in opposition.

What are the AI predictions getting right—and wrong—about your specialty? Would love for fellow doctors to Join me on Roon to discuss this article and compare notes with fellow physicians across medicine. Bring your experience to the debate.

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New Good Medicine with @AdamRodmanMD !

What if AI outdiagnoses your doctor—and adding the doctor back makes the answer worse?

That’s the uncomfortable question behind @ZekeEmanuel's recent JAMA article that inspired so much debate!

Some takeaways from our conversation. 🧵 1/5

New Good Medicine with Dr. Ashish Jha (@ashishkjha) !

What happens when the person publicly criticizing the government’s pandemic strategy is summoned to the Oval Office—and asked to help run it?

In this week’s episode of Good Medicine, I was thrilled to sit down with Dr. Jha.

Doctors don’t fall in love with medicine through bullet points.

They fall in love with it through curiosity. Through debate. Through the thrill of reading something that changes how they think about a patient, a disease, or the practice of medicine itself.